One of my ESXi 6 hosts had the configuration issue message stating: “Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version“. I only have two LUNs presented to my hosts and both are VMFS5:
After some brief searching I found VMware KB article 2109735 which states the possible cause:
This issue occurs because at the time of initial detection, the version of the filesystem is not known. Therefore, comparing it against the list of valid filesystems does not return a match.
Looking through the hostd log I did find the entry mentioned in the KB article. It appears that after I renamed my StarWind LUN it did not report the filesystem to the host fast enough which caused the error to occur:
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">/var/log/hostd.log</span> |
The resolution was to restart the management agents on the host. I put the host in maintenance mode then restarted the management agents:
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After the management services restarted the error cleared:
Leave comments below if you received this message and this KB article resolved your issue!
KB2109735:
I’m seeing the same issue. This is quite the bug that slipped through into RTM and the first patch. I’m using 6.0.0.2615704 and this bug is still present.
Using 2x Dell R630 hosts and an MD3420 SAS SAN.
Thanks, it is working for me
make sure no jobs are running on that host. if a vm is being migrated during this process, it will orphan and potentially corrupt the machine
Thanks. Solved it for me too.
Thank you!
Thanks, worked perfect.
Dan! Thanks a lot! It worked.
This did the trick. BTW, this is on build 3073146 (6.0U1)
Thanks, it is working for me
I have the same issue on ESXi 6.o U1. This workaround working for me 🙂
Thanks;
Luca
Wow!!! Its Working mee too Tq 🙂
Still the same in build 3380124 (U1b). Another bug on the huge pile that is ESXi 6.
For a fix follow my instruction only if the following are TRUE:
1/ You are in a VCENTER Environment
2/You Datastore is a SAN or NAS
Log into the Vcenter Web
Click Storage on the left pane
Click the Datacenter Center on the left pane
Click the Related Object Tab on the right pane
Click on the sub-tab Datastores under Related Objects
Right Click on Each Datastore and click Upgrade to VMFS5
Then follow the instruction from Daniel and run “services.sh restart” on SSH console thru Putty. By the way before you can SSH you need to Start SSH for each HOST for that you need to log into the Host thru Vsphere then click Configuration then Security Profile , click on the top right Properties link then select SSH then click option and then click start and OK.
Hi Shrimant! I confirmed my single datastore (Synology NAS) was already running the latest VMFS when I got this error
if you can do it , restart the host it will resolve the problem
Thanks it’s work after restart management
This worked for my environment as well. Thank you!
Used the two cli commands in the KB2109735 article and the message went away.
lot of thank you
Thank you bro for your article!